"Third brother, Southwest Emergency." When Li Yi tried to feed the baby vegetables mixed with meat and put a little sugar in the 'puree', Li Chengqi came running.

The little guy was waiting with his mouth open and drooling, when he was suddenly disturbed, and turned his head to look over, with a puzzled look in his big eyes.

After less than two breaths, he turned his head again and continued to wait for feeding.

When Li Chengqi saw the baby, he gave a big smile, but the baby ignored him.

He said to Li Longji and Li Yi: "Third brother, Brother Yi, there is news from the southwest, and the two rounds of express reports arrived together, and the first batch of rain on the road was delayed. ”

"Brother, what did you say?" Li Longji sat up straight.

"Won the war, successively defeated the enemy army of the southwest barbarians, and the salt merchants of Shu tried their best to cooperate, transporting countless grains and grasses for military needs.

Li Xuandao, the general of the Right Xiaowei, was stationed in a state of flux and turned to help local affairs.

At the same time, hunting, fishing, picking mushrooms, and catching giant pandas, Yi Di said that they are called giant pandas, which are iron-eating beasts.

The southwestern barbarians went out to fight, and the logistics supply was difficult, and they couldn't consume our Tang army, so they frequently looked for opportunities to attack.

Every time there is an attack, it will be detected in advance by the hot air balloon, Li Xuandao calmly arranged, and the Yulin Flying Horse rode and shot in the open field.

Our side suffered very few casualties, and the southwestern barbarians had lost more than 20,000 troops, including more than 7,000 prisoners. ”

Li Chengqi said the content of the battle report sent by Li Xuandao, the general of the Right Xiaowei, and his eyebrows fluttered.

In a war, the fewer people die on your own side, the better.

"Uncle, why is it called an iron-eating beast?" When the queen heard this, she was happy and curious.

"It can also be called a pottery beast, and there are giant pandas in a large area of Shudi now.

We all know that war horses need to be fed salt, otherwise the horses will not grow well enough.

Giant pandas also want to eat salt, and sometimes when they go into other people's homes, the other party's house has an iron pot, and there is always a little salt in the pot to eat.

The clay pot has the same salt, and the giant panda wants to eat it, so it licks it, and it is a bear, and if it has the strength, it will break the iron pot or clay pot.

Others watched from afar and thought that giant pandas eat iron, so they called them iron-eating beasts. ”

Li Yi gave popular science, giant pandas don't eat iron, they lick that bit of salt.

Livestock have to be fed salt, not to mention the giant pandas who are hard to find salt.

"Does the iron-eating beast eat people?" The queen still has questions.

"If you don't eat alive, giant pandas are timid, and they generally think that you are an enemy, bite you, and after biting you to death, they will leave.

When you're really dead, the pandas come back and feed them fresh meat, they don't like to eat much, you cook it, and they eat it very happily. ”

"Brother Yi, the war in the southwest, do you have a good prescription?" Li Longji doesn't care about pandas, he cares about war.

"As long as there are a lot of wild animals hunted there, it is actually profitable to dry the fur and some whips and bring them back.

The most profitable is actually the captive, I booked it all, came back and sold it to me, I paid for it.

If you find someone else to work, you have to pay you for a meal.

Isn't it a saving to use captives without pay, especially when they are in war, they have good physique and strength. ”

Li Yi followed up and talked about the war, and he asked the other party not to die as much as possible, and the salt merchants of Shu cooperated with him.

He went back to settle the bill, and then worked with the captives without pay.

"Uncle, how much do you spend on prisoners?" The queen wants to crook the building again.

"Fifty thousand yuan, giant pandas are more expensive, I just want to raise, one for 10,000, I want to live." Li Yi said the price.

The current 50,000 yuan is a little higher than the 50,000 yuan he bought at that time, and he can't measure it specifically, and he can't take the price of grain.

The price of grain has changed so much that the difference between the price of grain when he first came and the price of grain now is nearly six times.

Even if it was 50,000 yuan to cover his 100,000 yuan at that time, an employee who only provided food and simple accommodation would buy it and pay back in two years.

Li Yi can even give incentives to meat, even if it is three years to return to the capital, it is worth it.

"Brother Yi, you are exchanging money for your life." Li Longji understood.

His own Yi brother took all kinds of money, the purpose was to make Li Xuandao stable, don't be in a hurry to attack, and drag the southwest barbarians to death.

It's not the place where my Datang took the initiative to fight your southwest barbarians, I'll wait for you to come over.

I have 50,000 soldiers, and the logistics are sufficient, and your attacker will consume supplies with me?

Without Brother Yi's support, Li Xuandao didn't dare to spend it, and there must have been people in the court who accused him of shrinking and wasting money and food in vain.

Now the Ministry of Salt is not paying for it, and the salt merchants in Shu continue to send things.

The burden of 50,000 soldiers, Brother Yi shouldered it alone.

If one of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty takes out half of the money, I can travel across the Turks and Tibet.

"To collect the commercial tax, the commercial tax must be collected." Li Longji said what he thought in his heart.

Once again, he felt the power of capital, a person who can influence the death or injury of his own side in a battle.

And this person has just finished dealing with the disaster situation in a county in Datang.

He was so full of tenderness towards his own soldiers and people, and tried his best to balance input and output.

Turning his head to the enemy and corrupt officials, he has gone to the extreme again, and if he says impeachment, he will be impeached.

"Brother Yi, do you think the three prime ministers should be impeached?" Li Longji thought of Li Yi's bribery, so entangled.

"No, they do have the ability, third brother, I understand what you mean. I hated it and bribed it.

I impeach officials, not for myself, but for the people.

I paid bribes, not for myself, I didn't ask them to do anything, I don't need to make money through them.

The impeachment of officials is that the officials really make me angry, and they bribed the prime minister and the monk in order to maintain integrity. ”

Li Yi is calm, is it right to give bribes? From a legal point of view, the guarantee is wrong.

Is impeachment right? Legally, no problem.

Loose officials are also qualified to be booked, and many officials in Datang who have resigned still retain their official positions as loose officials, and they also write to the prime minister when they encounter things.

For example, Xie Wan applied for retirement, and when he retired, he was a doctor of Jin Ziguanglu and a civil official.

When I encountered a situation, I asked him, and he immediately gave advice, and then 'rehired' back.

It's the same with my own civil officer, if I am famous, I can be impeached.

"Then what if Yao Chong was in Huazhou at the time, drank with him, and didn't care about Zheng County's affairs when he was drunk?"

Li Chengji asked a question that he thought was difficult to answer.

"Impeachment, whoever is there to impeach whom, Your Majesty is here, I will also impeach, let Your Majesty make an edict against himself."

Li Yi replied decisively, and at the same time looked at Li Longji: "Third brother, if that's the case, can you find a way to keep me?" ”

"Bao, I will protect you with my life." Li Longji is equally crisp.

"Uncle, those people are going to be exiled to Yuezhou, and life is not easy." Queen Wang felt that it was too serious and changed the subject.

"Sister-in-law, to be honest, that place is a good location, and the officials won't take advantage of it, so it will make it a place of exile.

There are abundant water resources, suitable for fishing, and convenient water transportation.

Give me the entire Shannan Road, and in five years, I can support half of the Datang's grain and grass consumption. ”

Li Yi is not modest at all, a place in the south of the mountain and has jurisdiction over four provinces in the Yangtze River basin.

As long as he is allowed to recruit troops, he will be able to figure out the local area in five years.

The kind where the people are still happy, as for the officials, of course the obedient ones are also happy, and those who are disobedient are dying violently or something.